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GRASSHOPPER + RED DEER PEOPLE + OLM – GREEN DOOR STORE, BRIGHTON 3.1.18 As everyone knows, young grasshoppers can’t actually jump or play backwards, but Brighton’s very own young four piece post-punk-pseudo-goth band grasshopper (without a capital G) did play backwards, as...

Brighton and Hove Albion winger Jamie Murphy is having a medical as he prepares for a dream move to Glasgow Rangers. Murphy, 28, is in Glasgow for his medical with the Ibrox club having supported them since he was a boy. Rangers are reported to be paying about £1 million for...

Council chiefs are being asked to explain why Labour was apparently given a head start in the East Brighton by-election. The former Conservative leader of Brighton and Hove City Council, Mary Mears, has written to chief executive and elections returning officer Geoff Raw...

Beach hut owners are facing a massive hike in fees as Brighton and Hove City Council considers rises to bring its charges in line with other local authorities. Owners of the huts, which now go on the market for as much as £25,000, currently pay an annual fee of £367.20 to the...

Affordable housing targets will have to be met by developers unless they can show openly why it is not financially viable to do so. Too many applications for bigger schemes fall short of the council’s target of having 40 per cent of newly built homes classed as affordable,...

Tickets have gone on sale for the cricket match between Sussex and Australia at the County Ground in Hove. With the fifth test against England under way, it’s clear that Sussex will face formidable opponents when Australia take on Sussex on Thursday 7 June. Sussex members...

A Brighton building and design company appears to have gone bust leaving customers and contractors out of pocket and with work unfinished. DMB Solutions, of Borough Street, Brighton, is being liquidated – its assets are being sold to go towards paying its debts. The DMB...